Further and better delays ... Sleepers awake ... Unfinished case too old to be remembered ... Chop-chop ... Circus Court derailment ... Clock running slow ... Justice Jenni's unhurried rescue of online trader ... Sliding scale of delays ... From our Court Linesman ... Read more >>
The Empire Strikes Back ... Uday Moloch anointed to “protect the English speaking world” … Latest word on “genocide” … Bring out the No-Doz – The Mad Monk scribbles for Substack … Church litigation – a new front to be tested by victims of predatory priests ... Read more >>
Know one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Sold out ... Auction of personal effects of the late NSW Supremo Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme and Mrs Suzette Hulme ... Everything under the hammer ... Dalton figurine of the judge ... Meccano set ... Assorted bed linen ... Claytons wine ... Plastic kitchen containers ... Toby jug ... Whisky glasses ... Picture of a French advocat kissing his client ... 165 lots >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >>
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, July 16, 2019 The NSW CA turns down two appeals from solicitors in strife with the Bureau de Spank ... Old timer's dodgy dealings with estates and property ... Suspended with conditions ... Now struck off the jam roll ... Another solicitor forgot to tell the Law Society about her suspension as a migration agent ... So many things to worry about ... Duty of candour ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Court in the Act • Thursday, July 11, 2019 Sal Vasta in fresh horror ... More bullying, overbearing and threatening conduct from the judge ... Vasta makes a pig's ear out of application to amend a statement of claim ... Transcript reveals Vasta's alarming judicial style ... Litigant in person removed from court ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Monday, July 8, 2019 Unreal events rendered lifeless in Red Joan ... The chutney-making housewife who passed on atomic research secrets to the Soviet Union ... A nice job at the Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association ... The true story of the spy Melita Norwood is yet to come ... Miss Lumière is deeply unmoved with this version
Barely Legal • Sunday, July 7, 2019 Panda politics at USyd's Student Representative Council ... Student politicians terminate the SRC's long-standing lawyer ... More lawyers enter the melee at 10 paces ... Allegations back and forth on Facebook ... Lawyer refuses to act for SRC president in defamation case ... Barely Legal sums up the issues
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, July 3, 2019 US Supreme Court washes its hands of election rigging ... Redistricting ... Trump lawlessness ... The president losing droves of court cases ... Financial irregularities ... Cosmetic inquiries guarantee that no one is responsible for war crimes ... Persecution of migrant children ... Roger Fitch reporting from Washington
Court in the Act • Friday, June 7, 2019 Writing reports for the family courts ... Private consultants and their advice in custody disputes ... Parenting plans and abused children ... Contentious recommendations which sway courts with limited resources ... Lack of alternative "independent" advice ... Harrowing submission to parliamentary inquiry alleging misplaced professional advice about child abuse ... Janek Drevikovsky reports